“When he left, my mentor left. The first day he left, I started smoking. I rolled my first blunt that day.”

— Ray Buitron Jr., who turned his life around to graduate as valedictorian this week of Saginaw’s Earn To Learn, about his brother going to prison.

"What are we? Eye candy? Is that what it's called?"

— Thomas Township resident Jackie Blasch, joking about attending car shows with a group of friends while their husbands tinker with cars.

Jeff Schrier | Mlive.comAnn Romney uses her hand as a Michigan "map" while making a speech as her husband, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, listens during a rally in front of the Bavarian Inn Lodge in Frankenmuth. Romney made a campaign stop on his "Every Town Counts" tour.

"It's a little bit disheartening for those of us who look at the auto industry as a way of life to hear the potential next president has the opinion the auto industry should be allowed to go into bankruptcy."

“Our society and our county are under siege right now by young men who think that firing weapons indiscriminately or on purpose is something that's acceptable. It (isn't) acceptable to me, and I am fed up with people who keep firing guns at citizens, fed up with people getting shot when they're not the intended target.”